I mean, given all of the other incidents of just making shit up, I suppose deciding that math works differently if you’re not woke is an expected choice.

"Yglesias claims to think “rights are good,” but would have us ignore how neutral rules can be used to deny people their rights. Earlier this month, the Trump Department of Justice issued a memo that follows from Yglesias’s reasoning" www.liberalcurrents.com/a-tent-big-e...

Thomas jefferson? wrong about the constitution. frederick douglass? wrong about the constitution. Lincoln? wrong. FDR? wrong. the only person who has ever been right about the meaning of the constitution is Donald Trump.

surprise, you thought the constitution was a grant for liberty and self-government, but it turns out it is a grant for presidential dictatorship and an apartheid state!

I don’t use social media to argue about politics with strangers. I use social media to talk to people about fish. When I talk about fish on Bluesky, people ask me questions about fish. When I talk about fish on Twitter, people threaten to murder my family because we’re Jewish.

Buried under 12 paragraphs and 4 ads is this: that an investigation into the politicization of data was conducted not by … actually reviewing any data … but just by interviewing senior officials who disliked their chief. So more politics.

I think we have finally reached the point where there isn’t even common ground on what the definition of a “fact” is

What’s up with groups of six or more men in London? @monkchips.com ?

This is radicalizing

The real task isn’t “teaching people to spot misinformation.” It’s rebuilding conditions where verification, deliberation and accountability are possible. Critical thinking only works when the world around it gives those skills a place to take root.

We are so back

Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.

[me beginning my rebuttal after getting absolutely fucking waxed by my debate club opponent] I am sure we can all agree that there is no need for me to spend the time it would require to address each of my counterpart's arguments,

One of my most conservative-coded opinions is that one of the reasons we're in this mess is because of the profound decadence, solipsism, moral rot, and general lack of personal virtue afflicting much of the upper PMC / bourgeoisie.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

I can confirm that AI Ben Garrison is incredible ;) Ben, you can retire. (Gemini 3 Pro prompt: "Create a comic in the style of Ben Garrison that parodies the viewpoints of Ben Garrison. Pick a particular topic and take it to humorous extremes")

Rofl

Stephen Miller’s ancestors were Jewish refugees from the pogroms in czarist Russia. They came to the U.S. in the early twentieth century, even as racists said this same stuff about them.

God it's so cool that so much of British and European nationalist politics has broadly been shaped by warehouse clickfarms rented by guys in South Asia running "how to make money from racist old people" workshops, and that this has had more influence on media and politics than any grassroots group

/2 I was less kind than I might have been. I lost my temper. I told him that only fools were looking for explanations based in normality, and that it was obvious to everyone who wasn’t deluded that we were in a completely abnormal situation.

X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand. The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.

Every article by a 'savvy' political analyst reads like a focus group transcript with a low-information voter. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

working on my 2026 trend predictions and i'm feeling pretty good about the first one: protein weed vape

This blows my mind

These same folks extremely committed to fighting antisemitism in universities

Oh, I don’t know. Our rivers no longer catch on fire and our air is far less poisonous than it used to be, even in smog bowls like Los Angeles. And I think those are good things.

Calling childcare "goodies," like it's a decadent dessert -- Oh I couldn't possibly! ... Or could I? -- is straight up evil shit and if you think like this you got a fucking hole in your soul. Same with the "ice cream and ponies" shit they all pulled about M4A.

Can’t stop wondering about how this could possibly square with Christianity.

This is some horrifying predatory shit.

“In predicting who votes for or against Trump, racial resentment is one of the most powerful variables out there—more predictive than income, gender, education, geography, or attitudes about economic policy, gender, or religious traditionalism.”

"they didn't release the good emails from the sex criminal the president was friends with"

I have enjoyed @edzitron.com and @davidgerard.co.uk for years, but given that they both ignore opportunities to watch actual real companies using LLMs to provide meaningful lift in how they work, I can only conclude that they don’t actually want to know facts on the ground.

Smart piece by @bharatramamurti.bsky.social on how political leaders can solve the Affordability Conundrum — address immediate voter pain through price controls and increase supply in the long-term through anti-monopoly and industrial policies.

/3 I am informed it’s normal to get more intolerant as I get older and I think I am absolutely getting less tolerant of other people’s absolute bullshit.

C R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7cPSf...

The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

Until the sun burns out

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

My kids have measles and my SNAP benefits were cut. But at least those cashiers at Walmart aren’t writing “they/them” on their name tags anymore.

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

Pains me to say it but I think this is true. Some of my colleagues in the media who’ve stayed on X don’t even realize how badly its noxious algorithm is skewing their perception of politics and reality. Also, that place seems designed to make you miserable unless you’re a Nazi. It’s just wretched.

well I for one am shocked that "every aspect of your life gets worse forever and also look at my marble bathroom" did not turn out to be a winning election strategy

I'm mad. Please put in the newspaper that I'm mad.

“I chose a political culture that thinks masculinity means being an shitposter asshole who is proud to say ‘retard’, and now I can‘t find a suitable masculine mate.” I think I may have spotted your problem.